Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/53/59/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date12 November 1965
DescriptionCharles Parker interviews a group of young people about pop music:

Track 1: Martin Samson talks about songs written in folk clubs, Bob Dylan's songs, he discusses the lyrics of 'Mr Tambourine Man', which he says is about being under drugs, with Charles Parker- they talk about Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', 3.16 mins
Track 2: He talks about giving up folk music and the folk boom, he says that folk and pop are entirely separate and talks about the differences between folk and pop clubs, they discuss what a folk song is, 2.29 mins
Track 3: Alison MacFarlane talks about getting interested in folk music through her parents, she talks about living in America and records sold in drugstores in America, she talks about reacting negatively to pop records because she did not want to conform, 3.27 mins
Track 4: Christopher (Tenberg) talks about becoming interested in pop when he was 15, and tries to explain why he was interested, younger teenagers liking noisy pop, 2.15 mins
Track 5: Another boy says that younger teenagers like to forget themselves by listening to noisy pop, young people being afraid of standing out, 0.57 mins
Track 6: Another boy talks about pop as a 'brutal' form of music which revolts against conformity, breaking away from parents' ideas; they discuss conformity and stereotypes, 2.09 mins
Track 7: Charles Parker asks who controls pop music; they say teenagers have more money and pop music makes money; they talk about teenagers breaking away from parents' music, and children having more freedom now than in the Victorian era, 1.59 mins

Total: 16.34 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0776380
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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